Russian police have detained more than 100 people at spontaneous memorials for deceased opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the OVD-Info rights group said today. The 47-year-old Kremlin critic was serving a 19-year prison sentence in the Arctic when authorities announced his death, prompting grief among his supporters. People were seen gathering to place flowers at makeshift…
Ukrainian troops withdrew from the devastated eastern town of Avdiivka, Ukraine’s new army chief said in the early hours of Saturday, paving the way for Russia’s biggest advance since May 2023 when it captured the city of Bakhmut, reported Reuters. The withdrawal, announced as Ukraine faces acute shortages of ammunition with U.S. military aid delayed…
AMANAH secretary general Faiz Fadzil described Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor akin to a cartoon series that was produced in the 1960s – The Flintstones. “Sanusi is like the cartoon, The Flintstones who lived in the Stone Age. He does not understand the position of Islamic law in our constitution,” said…
The United States yesterday returned the Houthis to a list of terrorist groups as planned, hitting the Iran-aligned group with harsh sanctions that the United Nations fears could hurt Yemen’s fragile economy and civilians. The United States in January said it would designate the Houthis as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” as it aimed to…
A record 52 states will present arguments about the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the U.N.’s highest legal body. The ICJ’s six days of hearings starting on Monday come after the U.N. General Assembly asked the court in 2022 for an advisory, or non-binding,…
US President Joe Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for Alexei Navalny’s death and warned there could be consequences, saying he was “not surprised” but “outraged” by the opposition leader’s passing. “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that the death of Nalvany was a consequence of something that…
Egypt is preparing an area at the Gaza border which could accommodate Palestinians in case an Israeli offensive into Rafah prompts an exodus across the frontier, four sources said, in what they described as a contingency move by Cairo. Egypt, which denied making any such preparations, has repeatedly raised the alarm over the possibility that…
Despite a victorious run for Indonesia’s top post, Prabowo Subianto may have headache as his party, Gerindra is in the third position in the legislative race. the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has about 17 per cent of the votes with about 85 per cent of the sample results counted. Golkar and Prabowo’s Great…
The total number of jobs increased by 2.1% to 8.94 million openings in the fourth quarter of 2023 (Q4 2023) from 8.76 million jobs during the same period in the year before, said the statistics department. Chief Statistician Uzir Mahidin said the number of filled positions also saw a 2.1% increase to 8.74 million positions…
The United Nations aid chief warned on Thursday of the possibility of a spillover of Palestinians amassed in Rafah into Egypt if Israel launches a military operation against the border town. More than one million Palestinians are crammed into Rafah at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt. Many are…
